What's the Difference between The Dark Fields the Book and Limitless the Movie?
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Eddie Spinola
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Eddie Morra
Portrayed by: Bradley Cooper
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Carl Van Loon
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Carl Van Loon
Portrayed by: Robert DeNiro
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This Character does not appear.
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Lindy
Portrayed by: Abbie Cornish
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In the Movie |
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Eddie meets Melissa in a bar. She is overweight and has short hair. She tells him that she took MDT 4 years ago. Another guy taking it died. She tells him about her two daughters. Eddie tells her that he will try to cut down and wean himself off the drug. She gives him her address so he can stay in touch. She leaves. |
Eddie meets Melissa at a diner. She is think and has long hair. She tells him that she took NZT 2 years ago and a lot of people died from it. She says nothing about her kids. She tells him he has to taper off the drug or he will die. She leaves without talking about meeting again. |
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Eddie calls Gennady to return his message. He comes over to see him and Eddie offers to write him a check. He laughs and goes to the bank and takes out the first installment of $22,500 that he owes. He gives Gennady the script treatment he wrote the night before about the russian mafia. He leaves him to read it. |
After Eddie returns from meeting Melissa Gennady attacks him on the street. Eddie has a pill of NZT in his hand. Gennady beats him up and take him up to his apartment. Eddie drops the pill and Gennady takes it. Eddie goes to the bank and takes out the $100,000 he owes. Gennady tells Eddie he likes the drug.
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After meeting with Melissa, Eddie finds Vernon's notebook and starts calling people from his apartment. 3 are dead and the rest are sick. He then notices that 5 of his pills are missing. He suspects Gennady took them when he came to get his money. |
Eddie goes out and starts calling the people from a park bench. He does this before meeting with Melissa. The last call he makes causes the phone of a man following him to ring. He chases him and Eddie loses him before he meets Melissa. |
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This doesn't happen. |
After meeting with Melissa, Eddie is very sick and goes to Lindy's office. He needs her to get his pills. She goes to her apartment when he stashed them. She is being followed, so Eddie tells her to take a pill. She does and uses her sharpened mind to escape. Then she dumps Eddie.
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Eddie had been taking 2 pills a day, and cuts back to half and pill and then one pill to reduce the side effects. When he takes only one pill he is no longer smart. He eventually talks to a former customer of Vernon's who tells him he can take a drug called Dexeron that will keep the side effects at bay. He takes three MDT pills along with the Dexeron and returns to being super smart. |
Eddie had doubled his dosage causing the side effects. He collapses at Lindy's work and has been off NZT for a few days. He gets more and takes a single pill. He is back to normal. He then realizes that he can take one pill a day, and as long as he eats regularly and doesn't drink any booze he will not experience any side effects. Taking only one pill keeps him super smart. |